Crossing the Jabbok, Volume 3: Illness and Death in Askenazi Judaism in Sixteenth - Through Nineteenth-Century Prague by Sylvie-Anne Goldberg

Crossing the Jabbok, Volume 3: Illness and Death in Askenazi Judaism in Sixteenth - Through Nineteenth-Century Prague

Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Cultu

Sylvie-Anne Goldberg with Carol Cosman (Translator)

320 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history religion sociology medium-paced
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To date, remarkably little research attention has been paid to the development of Jewish beliefs and rituals about illness and death. Crossing the Jabbok presents an illuminating study of such views and practices among Ashkenazi Jews (1500s-1800s)...

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